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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Dragonflies and Damselflies (Odonata) » Dragonflies (Anisoptera) » Skimmers (Libellulidae) » Meadowhawks (Sympetrum) » Orange, imm & females: internum, janeae, obtrusum, rubicundulum sp group (Sympetrum Orange, imm & females: internum, janeae, obtrusum, rubicundulum sp group)
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Silly dragonfly - Sympetrum
Copyright © 2009 lunarblue

Silly dragonfly - Sympetrum
Taunton, Massachusetts, USA
August 10, 2009
Not sure what this is but I am hoing someone else does. I really need to start studying my dragonflies. have so many pictures of them now..hehehe
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Contributed by lunarblue on 11 August, 2009 - 10:39pm
Last updated 1 September, 2009 - 8:20pm

Moved
Moved from Meadowhawks.
… john and jane balaban, 1 September, 2009 - 8:20pm login or register to post comments

If you look above any image at the string of taxonomy
or click on Info or Images, you can always tell where each of your images is placed. This image was in the guide under Dragonflies (Suborder Anisoptera). We first went through all the images on that base page and tagged all those that were Skimmers and moved them to the Libellulidae (Family) page. Then we went through all the images on the Libellulidae page and tagged all that were Meadowhawks and moved them to the Sympetrum (Genus) page. That's where your image is now. If someone can identify which Sympetrum species this is, it will be moved to the species page. The string of Taxonomy above this image previously stopped at Anisoptera. For a brief time, in between moves, it ended at Libellulidae. Now it includes Sympetrum. And at some point in the future it will go all the way to species or species group.
… john and jane balaban, 17 August, 2009 - 10:31am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Skimmers.
… john and jane balaban, 16 August, 2009 - 9:32pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Dragonflies.
… john and jane balaban, 16 August, 2009 - 9:08pm login or register to post comments

 
why are all my things being m
why are all my things being moved. I do not understand.
… lunarblue, 16 August, 2009 - 11:24pm login or register to post comments

Meadowhawk.
Female or immature male in the genus Sympetrum. Jury is still out on how to tell these apart in many cases.
… Eric R. Eaton, 12 August, 2009 - 8:57am login or register to post comments

 
thank you
thank you
… lunarblue, 13 August, 2009 - 12:57pm login or register to post comments

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